(Inspired by Ned banter below) Wierdest on-street slagging I got this year = ‘ha ha love the umbrella mate’ (you need to read this with heavy sarcasm). Of course since it was pishing it down at the time, and I was (relatively) dry, should[…]

Would it be impossible to learn not only the arts of scissor and comb but also the basic social art of knowing when somebody wants to chat to a stranger and when they don’t. Just because you have me trapped in yr chair with a blade near my thro[…]

or have the insults and heckles of teenaged hoodlums gone somewhat downhill recently? Here are some, entirely true, examples of abuse hurled at me recently on the streets of Glasgow.
4. “Here, mate, d’ye want a chip?”: This one puzz[…]

Being cold might make you get cold, SCIENTISTS REVEAL. My irritation with THIS SORT OF THING is summed up in the final sentence – “Mothers can now be confident in their advice to children to wrap up well in winter” b/c of course the[…]

apparently the above — first ep broadcast on c4 on saturday — is based on a SCIENCE MUSEUM EXHIB’n which fellow citizens of the Freaky Trigan Empire enjoyed well i watched it w.my dad — though he wisely slept through the entir[…]

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Sorry, I have a feeling that this might not genuinely come into the area of minor irritations. I was going to avoid this blog this month as I (like to believe I) have a kind of Zen-like calm when it comes to the little things in life, and ignore rath[…]

Many a CARPER likes to have a good old WHINE about the commercialisation of Wobs and how it starts earlier every year etc etc. Yeah yeah stop your YAPPING, we went down to Brighton on Saturday and decided on a bit of early Xmas shopping but we could […]

Like many bipedal mammals, I walk. It is an activity that I enjoy and at which, over the years, I have come to display a certain amount of skill—I can now, for example, walk up stairs or steep inclines, where before this required great effort. Even[…]

Temp 1 (english): I’ve just got back from a month in mexico
Temp 2 (kiwi): [mildly unimpressed] oh really
Temp 1: [clearly hoping this would ring bells] yeah, there was surf in Cancun after the hurricane [which clearly I am being v blasé about[…]